NORWOOD — An alleged drunken driver engaged Creve Coeur police in a long but not-so-fast car chase through the Peoria area Tuesday morning, according to authorities.

Randy J. Parvin, 34, of Trivoli was seen about 8:15 a.m. by police speeding through Creve Coeur. When the cops turned on their lights, Parvin did not pull over. The police started to follow Parvin as he slowly made his way onto Interstate 474.

“There were times that he sped up, but there wasn’t a lot of traffic, he kept things pretty slow,” Creve Coeur Police Chief Pete Fisher said. “There were times he would stop even if there weren’t stop signs or traffic.”

Parvin exited at Airport Road and made his way toward Norwood. When he turned onto the winding Jones Hollow Road, he drove off the road, got stuck and then got out of the car. Police arrested Parvin without incident about 8:40 a.m. on charges of driving while under the influence of alcohol and driving with a revoked license.

Parvin was driving with blood-alcohol content more than five times the legal limit, Fisher said. The legal limit in Illinois for driving is 0.08 percent.

“That’s the highest one I’ve seen in a real long time. It’s rare to see someone functional enough to drive with that much alcohol,” Fisher said.